Quentin Tarantino on Buckaroo Banzai
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Quentin Tarantino reacts to W.D. Richter's 1984 cult classic The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
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I once saw someone describe Buckaroo Banzai as "What an 8-Year Old thinks a day in the life of the world's coolest person looks like" and to this day its the most accurate description of the film I've ever heard.
Totally!
That's a perfect description of the movie!
That is perfect
Well.. it was about a day long. At a guess more like two or three. I could be wrong.
And it was about the life of the coolest person on earth.
Not sure what the 8 year old has to do with it ;-)
I was in 6th grade in 1984 and at the time a classmate said that if _Ghostbusters_ hadn't come out that year, then _Buckaroo Banzai_ would have been the big hit of the summer. Yes, he was a moron.
I think the writer said it was intended to feel like a comic book movie made in another dimension. Without context, we are given a random chapter in the adventures of a hero we've never heard of, but there we are.
Exactly! Buckaroo Banzai is a contemporary (for the '80s) revisit of the classic archetype of the polymath hero like Doc Savage.
I love the way the story drops the audience into the middle of an ongoing saga, as if we're tuning into a random Saturday matinee action adventure movie.
Wherever we go, there we are.
It was a magical time. This movie lives in my head next to “Big Trouble in Little China” as something you just experience and smile about, not explain.
Man, I love (and own) "Big Trouble in Little China." It's the chef's kiss of '80's cheesiness. "Well, you know what old Jack Burton would say at a time like this?" "Who the hell's Jack Burton?" "Jack Burton! Me!" Classic
Btlc is pretty much my favorite movie but I wouldn't say its hard to explain. A Chinese sorcerer and his minions vs an American trucker and his pals.
@@Comicsandstuff But yet MK and all it's sequels were derived from this film.. To this Day I believe that the one rule that franchise has is that Jack Burton shall never appear, less we get sued.
I loved big trouble in little china
@@nickparsons337 Indeed! Once in a while I throw the Chang Sing hand gesture to see if anyone gets it (still waiting). "Repo Man," "They Live," and "Kung Pow" are also movies like that.
The funny thing is that most of the cast is still alive, and most of them are still working. It's almost like the movie was a good luck charm. Peter Weller, Clancy Brown, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan Banks, Lewis Smith, Dan Hedaya-- they're available! So get to work on "Buckaroo Banzai vs. the World Crime League", already!
(The great Vincent Schiavelli has passed, unfortunately, and I don't know if Robert Ito is still acting).
Earl Mac Rauch has written a novel of Buckaroo Banzai vs. the World Crime League. It came out in 2021.
"Wherever you go, there you are."
'Laugh while-a you can, monkey boy!'
* "No matter where you go, there you are."
@@chiefscheider I stand corrected thanks to you and orthopedic underwear.
It's the thought that counts.
However, Mrs. Johnson has submitted a request that you immediately report to the Banzai Institute Training Department for evaluation. "Oh, wow - "
It’s not my damn planet monkey boy!
Buckaroo was the world’s greatest rock star, test pilot, and neurosurgeon
Crime fighter, scientist
man of action, lover
I love the fact that to this day, the best sports stars, actors, dr's and basically everyone thinks they are a rockstar.. But yet Buckaroo was.
A hero we all can look up to!
Plus, he has a watermelon.
There's something magically, weirdly wonderful about "The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai: Across the Eighth Dimension" including the title.
Because it’s a true story, we are being invaded by shape shifting demented aliens from another dimension and they created a world wide crime league.
The movie title itself reminds me of 1930's sci-fi serials.
I saw it in the theater with friends, then saw it again a couple of weeks later. I'm baffled as to why people would be confused by this movie, it's an absurdist sci-fi comedy, I laughed all the way through it. I'm mean, John Bigboote, do I have to say more?
BigBootay! Tay! TAY!
@@TheRealNormanBates Ha! Ha! Nice.
I rememeber one night I was flipping through the channels and saw "buckaroo banzai" and turned and asked my mom if shes seen it and she says "no matter where you go there you are" and I had zero idea what she was talking about but man that was a good flick
Tell your mum she is beautiful.
Sounds like you had a cool mom.
My Dad quoted this for a decade after the film. Almost no one had any idea what he was on about.
"...Against the World Crime League" has been released as a novel and many other Buckaroo Banzai adventures have been released as comic books: one-shots and limited series all written by Earl Mac Rauch, who wrote the original movie.
The original movie, by the way, really only makes sense if you not only rewatch it fifty times but also read the companion novel released with the movie, which is not a novelization.
I love the movie and the companion novel equally. I was surprised to realize how well the novel can stand on its own.
Yeah, I lost that hard drive with those comics. But it wasn't until I read those comics that I understood how good the writing was, and went back and got a subtitle version of the movie to catch the dialogue that was in the film under all the overlapping convo, sound effects, and music.
I was so young when it came out, but I KNEW it was good. I think I had seen Lithgow in Garp (because I loved "Mork from Ork"). And it's when I realized what "acting" was for the first time, I was like "how can this guy who did that part also do this part?!!" I thought all the people in "sad" movies only did that, and all the people in "funny" movies only did that. That year, started doing kids improv, and many, many years later acted in some movies, wrote some movies. Even sat with Tarantino at a Japanese film festival laughing at a movie we had both seen 5 times. So, yeah, BB changed my little life!
A surprise mock-up sequel trailer was actually a terrific idea.
Jeff Goldblum going whole hog in cowboy adventurer persona is still the best. And John Lithgow’s alien before he was on 3rd Rock from the Sun.
Wrong, wrong, wrong! I’m not over it yet. I still want my Buckaroo Banzai Vs The World Crime League! You promised Buckaroo! Make it happen!
Amen brother.
Earl Mac Rauch, has written Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Pub. 2021 ... hopefully there will be a movie
When it first came out, I advised my friends not to see it the first time - but to skip directly to a second viewing if they truly wanted to understand and fall in love with it -
I still enjoy this movie and watch it at least once a year.
When the music hits at the end, the characters walking together, it literally takes me back to my childhood home.. Not that I’ve seen it a million times, maybe thrice, but it still has that feeling.
This film and the fans deserved a sequel.
I miss all the weird movies we used to get.
Yeah, I want to come out of the cinema thinking, "Well that was a ride!" Brazil, The Fifth Element, The Truman Show, Falling Down, Pulp Fiction are good examples of taking the audience along to explore a new place. Hollywood is now more like a bus route.
I watch buckaroo banzai recently last year and it felt like what dc and marvel should’ve been instead of being a lazy cash grab
You feel like they should have copied something that made no money and exists today as a cult classic at best? And this is coming from a big fan of Buckaroo Banzai.
@@Bagheadman it was made during the time where people didn’t take comic movies seriously, so why not
Boring and even more shitty?
I loved it immediately. There was a dollar matinee right after school and I would go and do my homework waiting for it to start. I saw it every day for a buck for about a week or so until it left the theater. Only time in Highschool I ever consistently did my homework.
I saw in in early 1985 at the Arcata Theater. They had run ads a few weeks in advance in the Tri City Weekly, a local free advertising/classifieds newspaper saying "Buckaroo Banzai is coming!" I had no idea what the movie was, or was supposed to be about when I went in, but I enjoyed it and have watched it again a few times and I still recommend it to certain people.
One of my favorite movies of all time. It was such a kooky and yet cool movie. Loved it.
Great movie Great cast love it
'they dont have to make it now', in the age of streaming anime ,that'd make a hell of one *hint,hint*
I saw it opening weekend back in 1984 and loved it. The theatre was basically empty, so it wasn’t exactly what you’d call a hit. But, that’s its charm. It wasn’t made for a mass audience and it’s to see all the love 40 years later.
My favorite line is so off the wall, “Why is that watermelon there??😂
I think there is an explanation somewhere, in universe. "the Banzai Institute is developing a strain of watermelon that can be airdropped into areas where people are starving without exploding on the ground"
It was a weird, fun movie that had some great laughs and a lot of great scenes. My fave was when his rock band is on stage cranking it and he makes everyone stop playing. “Is someone out there not having a good time?” Cut to the girl in tears sitting at a table by herself. Jeff Goldblum in full cowboy mode. What’s not to like?
I was so excited to see this movie. And when I finally saw it when it came out on VHS it took me at LEAST three times to even LIKE it. It took like five for me to love it.
Trip of a movie but it made fascinating points at the time; particularly about the nature of space between what makes us solid matter.
This film has potential as an update. The story consists of misfit eccentric characters which sounds so familiar when you realize Marvel has a similar film series with this same background. Studios need to be creative into developing a franchise and this does have something going for it. So many ideas can be explored in this.
My favorite film to this day.
When in film school 2002 I cut a Trailer for BB
nobody in my class had see it
the next day they were Screening it in the Lunch Room
truly one of the Great Cult Movies of all Time.
Up there with Eating Raul, God Bless America, Bubba Ho Tep or Man Bites Dog.
A few years back I found a video that was test footage for a possible BB TV series. It was CGI and featureed the Jet Car being used to assist with the landing of a disabled Space Shuttle. It was slick. Too bad that never materialized.
I’m not over it, I still want it made!
I saw it in the theater and then on cable a million times and then on DVD. I don’t know how many viewings it took before I noticed during the jetcar test the display of the truck saying “Sined”, Sealed”, and then after it went into the mountain, “Delivered”.
I just couldn't get with this one, all my friends love it still, I've tried re-watching and I just can't.
PURE CRAP! BUT THE DIRECTOR WROTE 📝BIG TROUBLE IN little china 👍 GO FIGURE🤔
Excuse me 🙏 co wrote it.
This could be your 10th movie Quinten
F’ing loved this movie as a young man. Probably rented it 20 times.
The actors, writer, and director are ALL STILL ALIVE ffs make the sequel
I remember when I realized that Repo Man was basically the same story as Back to the Future sort of then I also realized that this movie was exactly like that too play the same elements time travel rock music like aliens always wondered how does that happen sometimes multiple Studios have a project then pass on it it becomes someone else's property but they still have some intellectual property that they added to it so they can kind of take it change the names to protect the guilty
No Quinton, I’m not over it. We still want Buckaroo Banzai 2.
Just remember. Wherever you go, there you are.
The 80s had so many fun and weird movies that became cult favorites.
It would be zany if Peter Weller were to star -- or even just co-star -- in a movie, playing an ordinary guy, maybe living alone in a secluded rural area in Nowheresville, U.S.A. . . . with the surprise ending being a 'reveal' that he's actually Buckaroo Banzai living on the down-low in seclusion, perhaps because his posse had been wiped out by the World Crime League decades ago, and he had realistically accepted the fact that the WCL was too powerful for him -- with or without his crew -- to defeat. Oh, it'll never happen, but it'd be zany if it did!
I love this film. Cinema is not reality, and this film knew exactly what that meant.
I vowed to myself that if I ever won BIG TIME on the lottery, that I would use my winnings to personally fund the production of "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League".
Unlike QT, I am not over it.
I’ve thought the same thing. First things first: gotta clear up the rights issue. It’s the main reason we didn’t get a sequel.
I love this movie!!! I'm waiting for someone to put out a 4k collector's edition. I think Shout! had one but it's out of print.
A legacy sequel with some of the principles involved but like Buckaroo Jr or something as a streamer would totally land. Shit... Kite Man is getting a movie.
I was 13 when this movie came out. And in my tiny warped fantasy mind, even I thought this movie was nuts
Best movie ever
I remember seeing it when it came out at the theatre
I remember watching this years ago, I think I liked it.
I just didn't know what to make of this movie back then lol
It's a shame that the property got locked up in I.P. ownership hell, hence no World Crime League sequel...
. Trivia: that end credits march of the actors was shot to a playback of "Jessie's Girl", because the actual music wasn't yet ready, but the beat was a match.
I LOVED that movie😂❤
I'm not over it!
Loved this movie.
Yeah Yeah, Pal. Everybody "need see buckaroo"
It didn't get a cinema release in Britain, I saw it at the Scala in King's Cross. As endearingly weird as the movie is, the weirdest thing to me is seeing Harris from Porridge (Ronald Lacey) as the US President.
Dragged my best friend to see it opening night in Westwood... and when the movie let out, I took off running down the street, because I thought my friend was gonna kick my ass!
I think someone in Hollywood needs to sit down and start writing the script for World Crime League. Even if most of the original cast is too old to reprise their roles I think it could be a fun movie. I'd go see it for sure.
Loved this movie
Let’s be honest, they did make the sequel, but it’s called Big Trouble in Little China.
In a perfect world, we would get a sequel featuring Jack Burton and Buckaroo Banzai.
Repo Man, Buckaroo Banzai, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live - should be studied in film and writing schools (go figure, but you actually have different characters and motivations that you know and care about in all these movies)
I love this movie, and everyone i have shown it to go "huh, wha!!?🤯"
I fell alseep watching this movie.
My favorite part of the movie is the end credits.
"Why is there a watermelon there?"
I only saw it for the first time recently. Very weird but i got it right away (maybe helps that I really like "They Live" also!?)
Buckaroo Banzai has more originality than all Tarantino's movies. It's nice that a lowly video store clerk could find success, but unsurprisingly his movies are all pastiche. And highly self-indulgent. To wit, the best Tarantino movie is Jackie Brown. He did not write the script. This is not a coincidence.
Read that MGM now ouns it outright....could have a teaser dream scene. Jamie Lee Curtis in dream tells present day Buckaroo Hanoi Shen is back...maybe James Hong in dream?
Only movie in my life, that I have gone to see three nights in a row. Me and a mate went to see it opening night, it had been given a really supportive review by our great local radio station host/comedian , Kevin Aloysius Johann Sebastian Black (rip)
We laughed so hard, and convinced a heap of mates to ( get stoned and ) go see it the next night. Then we all thought it would be a good idea to take our girlfriends to see it the next night, and BOY that was wrong, they did not get anything out of the film, totally disappointed in it, and in our enjoying it, each one of them.
Losers.
“No matter where you go, there you are.”
Whoops, wrong flick, LOL.
From Mad Max: Thunderdome
Ok so make the fucking movie for us already Quentin
Tarantino is nuts
Speak for yourself Quentin! I'm still waiting.
That really was a strange movie. Maybe, ahead of its time. A remake perhaps is needed? Stay true to the original with modern CGI. That would be cool.
Buckaroo is the closest we will get to a live action Venture Bros lol
I thought Banzai was a hoot. I was entertained by it, as I was laughing and asking WTF the whole time. John Lithgow was hilarious, "it makes the ganglia twitch." The way most movies are these days, shoot, I'd watch a new one.
Still a 8 year old waiting for Workd Crime League.
Would settle for "Organized Libertarians"
No. They DO have to make it now
Buckaroo!!!
Buckaroo Banzai is a hip clone of Doc Savage. On acid.
I watched ready payer one and decided to check buckaroo and did not care for the reference after watching it, watched it again it has charm still a weird F movie though
Another weird loveable movie was repoman
Was this the film with the Kung fu Robots? Or was that Ice Pirates....or Space Pirates, or Space Balls.....or KRULL????? 🥋 🤖⚡
no, this is the one with the watermelon.
@@kevjones5047 😄👍
Why is there a watermelon there?
I’ll tell you later
I proudly showed this movie to m6 English, he was not impressed. It is too bad, not to be good.
Big BooTAY!
This is one cult classic I do not get. It makes no sense and has nothing to follow or grab onto. It's just all over the place. It's hard to have fun when it is just nonsense.
I don't care. 40 years later and I still love Buckaroo Banzai. I wanted a sequel so bad. Most of the people I show it to don't enjoy it like I do. With all the remakes and sequels made nowadays, I'm glad it has been left alone.
friggen classic... to this day I can say Big Bootay to almost any one my friends and get a laugh!
If ever a movie deserved a remake, it's this one! I would LOVE a remake to this, as this movie was so ahead of its time. Imagine a director like Edgar Wright, or the two guys that made Everything, Everywhere, All at Once having a go at it. It would have the potential to be a big hit.
@@eyespy3001 the problem is that it would be so easy to do a disservice to the original. Most directors would find it difficult not to try and put their own spin on the story, or change parts that they thought they could improve, while the alternative would be a shot for shot remake, which would be kind of pointless. About the only thing that could be done to the original movie would be a remastering that could maybe clean up some of the green screen shots. Now, picking up where it left off and doing the sequel might be fun, but from what I have heard the book "Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League" was a mess, so it's probably best left alone.
@@AbnerHolsinger I, personally, wouldn’t mind a different director adding their own spin to it (which is why I listed those two/three directors I would like to see tackle this). I’m not in the camp that believes movies are sacrosanct. Remakes don’t ever “ruin“ the movie they’re remaking, because the originals will always exist and nothing can take away from it. If anything, remakes have the potential of drawing a new audience to the original. How many new people discovered David Lynch’s _Dune_ after watching Denis Villeneuve’s _Dune_ movies, for example.
Plus, I would love to hear an updated version of that end credits song. Same melody, but with newer synths and drum machines? Could be a straight banger
@@eyespy3001- Kevin Smith came very close to making a reboot/sequel series at Amazon. He was talking to Keanu Reeves about playing the lead role before it fell apart.
"I'm over it now!"
Are we, Quentin? :D Are we...? :D :D
I'm not.
I saw this movie in a theater in a mall in bum-f**k Florida when it came out. And the audience was so into it, they laughed at all the jokes, they bought into the weirdness of it all, they loved it. And from that moment I knew that the AUDIENCE - that mysterious THEM that the powers-that-be are trying to figure out how to market PRODUCT to - are infinitely more sophisticated than most everyone thinks they are, including Quentin Tarantino.
Thank you for starting off with that banger of a theme. Greatest end credit sequence of all time.
Damn, I love this movie so much.
I still feel robbed we never got the World Crime League film.
I remember seeing the end of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and loving the Buckaroo Banzai ending! 🤣
And Jeff Goldblum is in both sequences.
@@jimjam51075
Connective tissue
BB is basically a manga comic come to life, so we got a manga movie with these larger than life characters decades before that concept was even a thing. I love that movie for many reasons. One being the fact that if that movie was done today by someone that had the same passion and the money needed to it right, it could have become the biggest thing ever. As big as when George was trying to get Star Wars done. And with the same amount of merchandise. Hell there might be 10 of those films, and the spin offs and streaming shows and whatnot. It would be huge,with a cult following bigger than you could possibly imagine.
The thing that is masterful about Buckaroo Banzai is its use of tangential exposition - you hit the ground running and have to work, as an audience member, to sus out the context of the universe. Like the best classic (golden age) sci fi it just assumes you know the universe and ploughs forward.
i always watch it just for the closing credits scene, seriously. when they are all just walking down there in the drainage canal with the awesome theme song playing.
You can clearly see that influence at end credits of Life Aquatic
That’s the LOS ANGELES RIVER!! !!!
I still have my Buckaroo Banzai headband, which I will proudly wear to the theater when the sequel is released.
The way I explain the movie to people is, imagine if the Avengers came out in the thirties, but replace all the superpowers with inventions. Now imagine that Infinity War was the first Marvel adventure ever to make it to film. That’s Buckaroo Banzai.
I was disappointed they didn't come out with more adventures.